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the latter there is a great abundance of plant impressions, hut they 

 belong to only a few species,— Phyllatheca Indica, Schizoneura sp., 

 Glosspteris Browniana, Qlossopteris leptoneura. These are charac- 

 teristic of the upper portion of the Damuda series in Bengal, and there 

 can be little doubt that the rocks south of Anrir belong to our Kamthi 

 division, and not to the Barakars. 



; Near Urkiilu (Wurkoolee), east and a little south of Anur, sand- 

 stones occur that might readily be mistaken for Vindhyans. They are of 

 a rusty brown color, and are more granular in texture than the ordinary 

 Kamthi sandstones. They are also more ferruginous, and have, as it 

 were, a rougher look. I have classed them with the Kamthis, as there 

 is no stratigraphical evidence to show that they are anything else but 

 members of that series. 



East of Sirptfr there are rocks which may possibly be of Kamthi age. 



I am inclined to think, however, that they are of a 

 Questionable Kamthis. 



more recent period, for though most of the strata 



may be matched by the various Kamthi types in different parts of the 

 area already described, ferruginous bands, conglomerates, and shaly beds 

 are of much more frequent occurrence than is ordinarily the case in 

 the Kamthi group j the pebbles also in many of the conglomerates are 

 unlike those that usually occur, being of white and yellowish white 

 pellucid quartz, such as are met with in the conglomerates of the Upper 

 Panchets described in the memoir of the Raniganj field.* These rocks 

 extend down the valley of the Pranhita, and form the high land over- 

 looking the left bank of the river in the Sironcha district. 



Section IX. — Kota-Maleri Group. 

 In the Records of the Geological Survey of India, f Dr. Oldham in 



* Memoirs, Geological Survey of India, Vol. III. 



t Records, Geological Survey of India, 1871, Vol. IV, page 74. 



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